Bhumi Pednekar is a renowned Bollywood actress born to late Satish and Sumitra Pednekar. Her father, Satish, was a former Maharashtra home and labor minister, while her mother, Sumitra, worked as an activist fighting for the anti-tobacco regime after her husband's passing due to oral cancer.
Pednekar began her career at Yash Raj Films as a casting director for six years before making her acting debut in Sharat Katariya's My Big Fat Bride (2015). She played the role of an obese wife, opposite Ayushmann Khurrana's character, and received widespread acclaim for her performance. She won several awards, including the Filmfare Award, Screen Award, and International Indian Film Academy Award for Best Female Debut.
Her subsequent films include Toilet: A Love Story (2017),opposite Akshay Kumar, where she played a young lady campaigning for sanitation conditions in rural India. The film grossed over 3 billion worldwide, making it one of the year's highest-grossing films and Pednekar's highest-grossing film overall.
Pednekar received her first nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Shubh Mangal Savdhan (2017),a comedy opposite Ayushmann Khurrana. She also appeared in the Netflix anthology series Lust Stories (2018),playing a maid in a relationship with her boss.
In 2019, Pednekar starred in the Abhishek Chaubey-directed criminal thriller Sonchiriya, alongside Sushant Singh Rajput and Manoj Bajpayee. She also played Chandro Tomar, a sharpshooter in her 70s, in Saand Ki Aankh (2019),opposite Taapsee Pannu.
Pednekar reprised her role as a headstrong small-town teen in Bala (2019) and played a housewife whose husband was having an affair in Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019). She also appeared in Alankrita Shrivastava's Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars (2019),which premiered at the 24th Busan International Film Festival and was released on Netflix in 2020.
Pednekar's subsequent films include Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020),Bhoot: Part One - The Haunted Ship (2020),Durgamati: The Myth (2020),and Badhaai Do (2022),opposite Rajkummar Rao.
Her recent films include Raksha Bandhan (2022),opposite Akshay Kumar, and Govinda Naam Mera (2022),alongside Vicky Kaushal and Kiara Advani.
